Monday morning Apple links

John Gruber breaks down the "Aperture Axed?" story and gives it his own brand of analysis, and casting a more positive light on the future of the application while laying it bare on it's troubled past: "Intrigued, I did some digging. I’ll note up front that my sources
aren’t first-hand — i.e. I don’t know anyone directly involved on
the Aperture team. That said, my sources at Apple confirmed the
basic gist of Think Secret’s report. First, that even by the
standards of 1.0 products, Aperture’s development did not go well. A
little bit late is one thing; nine months late — which according to
my sources is how late Aperture 1.0 was — is a disaster."

MacWorld.co.uk is reporting that we may see a verdict in the Apple v. Apple case by May 8th: "Justice Edward Mann has been deliberating on the case since before
Easter. At the ruling he will reveal if he has decided to grant an
injunction barring Apple Computer from using its logo within iTunes."

Google Importer is a Spotlight plugin that fetches results from Google and displays them alongside results from your own computer.

I just discovered the Universal Binary version of StuffIt Expander 10 beta. Since my old 9.0 version had stopped working, I was keen to get a new version to open those crufty old .SIT files I had laying around. Works like a charm and best of all? No installer!

Apple Developer Connection: Intel Mac mini Developer Note: "This developer note gives a technical description of the Mac mini
computer based on the Intel Core Duo microprocessor or Intel Core Solo
microprocessor and introduced in February 2006, to help developers
design products compatible with this computer. The note provides
information about the computer’s internal design, input-output
features, and expansion capabilities."